YAAAA HOOOOO WAAAROOOO, Here is the emotion !!!!! I can't sleep...

Can you imagine a 6"4 100KG weird looking dude yelling like he had won the lotto bearing down wind out of control coming straight at you, after landing his first Back Roll? That's what was going on for a couple of people this Friday at Blacks Beach Mackay.

The Crew here are so supportive, they cant wait to give you the high five on the beach when you get out and give it a good go, they already have me itching to try the next trick now I am an expert in the back rolls

I cannot believe it, this had to be the best Friday (any day for that matter) Mackay has had in a year for the Kite boarders... the conditions were perfect, the wind was solid and not too gusty, the tide was low and the lagoon was like glass in spots with the breakers on the other side of the sand bar.

, I have just landed my first back roll normal footed (about 5-7 really solid & ride away) and I give it a go Goofy but it was more like an off axis 3 spin, I think this sport rocks, I haven't been doing this long and my Waroo Pro 07 is the Bees Knees, I had a Naish XIII that I bought 2nd hand & used my wake board for a while. These newer Bow kites make it easy. I have an "Underground" Board too keep that layer between me and the water.

Wind conditions:
www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=33119&list=ob

Good stuff big fella. Know exactly how you are feeling .... its been like that for the three years Ive been kiting ...the rush you get from our sport is unmatched in anything else I have done and it keeps on coming...happy kiting mate ....
cheers
col

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Originally posted by dparker

Cheers Fellas, A bit of luck and the wind gods will bless us again today. I am hoping to top yesterday’s efforts today!!!

Today’s goal - [}:)] Unhooked Raley [}:)]

Good thing I can swim.

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You'll be surprised at just how easy Raleys are.

Start with your kite relatively high, so you get a bit of time to work out your landing to begin with. Then, as you get the hang of it, bring the kite down lower and lower.

You need power, or you don't get enough altitude to end up with enough time to get your board back under you.

Good luck

Cheers for the Tips lance, Saturday's session was a good one as well, The wind had changed direction so we went to a different spot, the mouth of the river was the days choice, on the other side of the rock wall it opens out to a massive beach area called far beach, its no good when the tide is out as there is sand for about 3 kms but about mid tide the water is waist deep just about anywhere. It was the first time I ventured out of the mouth of the river, it was great in the flat water.

Back to the tricks, Back rolls are well and truly sorted, (Small to Medium in size) Its time to increase the size and go big, the kite loop sounds like something I am going to master concurrently with the Raley, I had been accidentally doing the odd back roll with a kite loop by accident, what has been happening is I have been getting pulled backwards and getting thrown into a spin?? Any tips on what is going wrong here?

As for the update on the Unhooked Raley, I guess I should have learnt more about how my chicken loops goes back together!!! In this case I know what went wrong EVERYTHING.. You can imagine the look on my face when I eventually worked out how to get my chicken loop back together when I turned around to face the inevitable where is my Board??? It was nowhere to be scene I had a few of the lads scouting the area as the tide was moving out and the wind was blowing in, I started heading to shore hoping it had been blown in with the wind, It was a good time to practice those boosts we all like doing without the board, the extra height helped me looking for the board. It wasn’t long and my trusty "Underground" was sighted drinking cocktails on a sand bar about 500mtrs up wind of me.

Remember this

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Today’s goal - [}:)] Unhooked Raley [}:)]

Good thing I can swim.

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Any how its all part of the fun, Mr Bonk gives some good advice by the sounds to I will try that, I had left before I had read the notes yesterday, I will keep you all posted, I will also try and get some pics up for you of the hot spots..

DEP

Dan what are you talking about - word has it your the king of Dolls

yes mate you know I'm going to be on it... keen to give that SPOT a go even though it's a bit of a hike for me from GOD's own Mate you should have seen the SHARK I saw yesterday, one big dark grey croooozer about 10m from me... man I must attract them because that's my 5th shark encounter in less than 12 months.

yeah it was a good day... but I think the wind came in even more when we left mate I was surprised by the amount of power rivers 9m had. I had a go, but I really needed longer on it to suss it out.... I was over sheeting it.

I wasn't into the Revolver at all. It just had this really dead feeling on the bar and was no way near as quick as the 12 Rebel. It had better low end, but it's just not my thing.... I like to feel the kite if you know what I mean.